Best Beginner BiColor Deck?

[OceanSky]

I am introducing someone to MTG, and want to suggest a bicolor deck for them to start with. I will be helping them build their deck. Any suggestions for which two colors are best? It would be a casual deck (at least 60 cards, no sideboard).

I have a green-white deck for myself.

[Drunk Cynic]

Purely speaking, there isn't a best. Every deck pair should be well balanced overall.

It depends largely on your card pool. A strong counter would be Red-Blue.

[Darkness9863]

I think a good color combo to start with is Golgari. Make an infect deck to start him/her off. Might be the easiest deck to start with. Other than a monocolored deck of course.

[robort]

Golgari is a bi color ? To answer, all colors can mesh with 1 another . I'd keep it simple with common and uncommen cards, then work your way up

[Drunk Cynic]

Golgari is Black and Green, from Ravnica.

https://humpheh.com/magic/c/

[robort]

Golgari is Black and Green, from Ravnica.

https://humpheh.com/magic/c/

Then say black/green 

[Mat Montgomery]

Golgari is Black and Green, from Ravnica.

https://humpheh.com/magic/c/

Then say black/green 

Golgari is a pretty commonly used term. its not like he said ana or glint.

[G. Moto]

     Really I feel that it's up to the player you are teaching. You can offer them an Azorius (W/U) control deck but if they are more aggro oriented then they may lean more towards Gruul (R/G) or even a Rakdos (B/R) burn deck. My recommendation is to gauge the person, show them the card pool that you have, see what they are drawn to mostly and then build a deck. That way you're not just building a deck just to have one. Also Ravnica is a good block to start off new people with since a lot of their mechanics pretty much cover the play styles of those color pairs across multiple plains. Familiarize them with Ravnica in and out first, then move to either Alara or Tarkir when they feel they're ready for triple colors.

[EBWonder]

for a beginner, I'm thinking a golgari elf deck. it can be made relatively cheap and is rather fast.

[G. Moto]

If you decide to build a standard deck for them (and for yourself if you plan on going to FNM tournaments with it later), you could build a simple R/G wolf/werewolf deck. A lot of the commons are easy to build with and there aren't that many tricks to the deck besides just aggressively attack the other person.

[robort]

Golgari is Black and Green, from Ravnica.

https://humpheh.com/magic/c/

Then say black/green 

Golgari is a pretty commonly used term. its not like he said ana or glint.

I don't hear it used often, then again people I know keep it simple. If everyone commonly jumped off a bridge would you go and do it? I like to call it creativity, not being a sheep.

[Mat Montgomery]

Golgari is Black and Green, from Ravnica.

https://humpheh.com/magic/c/

Then say black/green 

Golgari is a pretty commonly used term. its not like he said ana or glint.

I don't hear it used often, then again people I know keep it simple. If everyone commonly jumped off a bridge would you go and do it? I like to call it creativity, not being a sheep.

How is keeping it simple being creative?

[Drunk Cynic]

The combination names are apart of magic the gathering lingo, much like mulligan, mill, anthem, etc.

[robort]

The combination names are apart of magic the gathering lingo, much like mulligan, mill, anthem, etc.

It was quote "from ravenica" block. Keeping it simple means very little confusion. The saying of less is more applies.

[Mat Montgomery]

The combination names are apart of magic the gathering lingo, much like mulligan, mill, anthem, etc.

It was quote "from ravenica" block. Keeping it simple means very little confusion. The saying of less is more applies.

Even so, what exactly does that have to do with creativity?